Common Applications on the Mac

Address Book:

• stores information for your contacts
• separate application--but works with Mail app
• click on the Address Book icon in your dock (looks like a brown address book)
• add contacts individually; click the plus sign at the bottom of the individual contact list to add a card
• create groups; click the plus sign at the bottom of the groups list to create a group. Drag contacts to the group

Need more help?

• Here's a document with more instructions on using your address book:
  

  Address Book.pdf
  

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iCal

• Calendar that will link with the iCal widget on your Dashboard
• Send "invitations" to others as reminders for meetings, etc.
• Create "calendars" in different colors to organize your calendar
• Specific instructions:
  

  iCal.pdf
  

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iChat

• set up an account to use iChat

Pages

• Choose from templates or blank to create documents, flyers, invitations, and more
• Use Pages to open your AppleWorks word processing document

iTunes

• Listen to music, podcasts, or online radio broadcasts
• Some specific instructions:
  

  iTunes.pdf
  

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• Interested in Podcasts? Check out 100 Ways to Use an iPod to Enhance Learning
• Here's a document with information about podcasts:
  

  Podcasts.pdf
  

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Garage Band

• Record your own music or podcasts

iPhoto

• download and organize your photos
• Basic instructions:
  

  iPhoto.pdf
  

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Keynote

• Create presentations with animation and transition
• Here's a Keynote presentation to help you get started: Keynote slideshow

Numbers

• Create spreadsheets
• Use Numbers to open your AppleWorks spreadsheet documents

Dictionary

• Instant access to New Oxford Dictionary, thesaurus, Apple dictionary, Wikipedia

Dashboard

• Add Widgets to your desktop
• Fun and useful
• Click the Dashboard icon in dock to activate
  • click the plus sign in lower left corner, then click Manage Widget
  • in the Manage Widgets pane, click More Widgets to browse and download more!

Exposé

• Instantly access any open window with a keystroke
  • Display all open windows as thumbnails; click on one to make active
• Instantly show all applications
• Hide all windows to locate something on your desktop
• Change function keys, set hot keys in System Preferences

Spaces

• Lets you organize your windows and switch back and forth easily
• Set up in System Preferences
• Add extra rows or columns if four isn't enough
• Use ctrl and right arrow to move from one Space to the next

Stickies

• Digital sticky notes
• Click Stickies icon in dock to activate
• Can change note color, font, style, etc.
• Automatically saves notes when you quit Stickies
• Click square in upper left-hand corner of note to delete

Universal Access

• Go to the apple in the upper left-hand corner of your screen, point to System Preferences and click.
• Under System, click on Universal Access.
• A helpful feature is Zoom
  
  
  Turn Zoom On to use keystrokes to zoom in or out: Command - Option - + will allow you to "zoom in" to the place on your screen where your pointer is. Command - Option - - (minus sign/hypen) will "zoom out".
• Click on the Seeing tab for tools to help with the sight impaired. The VoiceOver may be useful for students who don't yet read or have difficulty reading, as well.
• Click on the Hearing tab to activate tools for the hearing impaired.
• Click on the Keyboard tab to change keyboard sensitivity.
• Click on the Mouse & Trackpad tab to change settings for these input devices.